[IMRA: Ami Isseroff is “Executive Director of MidEastWeb for coexistence and a supporter of Palestinian rights”. An annotated version of this article appears at www.zionism-israel.com/log/archives/00000142.html ] As the tension builds in Gaza following the kidnapping (capture?) of an Israeli soldier, so the pressure builds against Israel: “All that fuss over one soldier!” “Gazans are suffering […]

Four top Hamas officials living in eastern Jerusalem will no longer enjoy the benefits of Israeli citizenship. At least one of the four was arrested in an anti-terror security sweep this week. A 30-day ultimatum to choose between terrorist membership and Israeli residency expired at midnight on Thursday for the four Hamas Palestinian Authority legislators. […]

Since replacing Ariel Sharon in office last December, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has refused to permit a large-scale IDF incursion into the Gaza Strip. The hundreds of rockets, mortars and missiles that have rendered the Western Negev’s population and economy hostage to Palestinian rocket crews could not budge him from his refusal to take the […]

No one should be surprised at Israel’s aggressive assault into Gaza this week, and it’s about more than just trying to rescue a kidnapped soldier. This is good old-fashioned payback Middle Eastern style. For more than a month, Palestinian terrorists have been raining rockets into southern Israel communities. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had to teach […]

Thousands of people, including both chief rabbis and other notables, attended the funeral of Eliyahu Asheri, kidnapped and murdered by Arab terrorists. Arutz-7 brings photos from the funeral. Roads in Jerusalem were closed in honor of the funeral, which is to end with the youth’s burial in the Mt. of Olives cemetery. Eliyahu’s teachers and […]

In a show of solidarity and support for “Women in Green” leader Nadia Matar, a group of Gush Katif evacuees traveled up to the Shalom Court in the Russian Compound of the Jerusalem Court house today where Nadia is standing trial. Hers is a precedent-setting case. This outspoken leader who promotes Jewish settlement throughout the […]

Tehran has recruited and funded eight Islamic fundamentalist organizations to undertake retaliatory strikes against U.S. and British military and economic interests across the Middle East – and perhaps in the U.S. and Europe – in the event Iran’s nuclear facilities are attacked, reports a London Arab daily, Asharq Al-Awsat. The plan, which has been heavily […]

[IMRA: It should be noted that the murder was consistent with the “Prisoner’s Document” agreed to by “man of peace” Mahmoud Abbas] www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Memorial/2006/Victims/Eliyahu+Pinhas+Asheri.htm June 25, 2006 – Eliahu Asheri, 18, of Itamar was kidnapped by terrorists from the Popular Resistance Committees while hitchhiking to Neveh Tzuf, where he was studying. His body was found on […]

IDF forces are operating in Ramallah in an effort to find 18-year-old Eliyahu Asheri from Itamar. Residents of Kiryat Arba and Kedumim blocked roads to PA Arabs in protest of the kidnapping. IDF soldiers surrounded the offices of a Fatah terrorist organization in Ramallah Wednesday afternoon. One of his suspected kidnappers may have been captured […]

Peres should apologize New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized remarks made by Israeli Vice-Premier Shimon Peres denigrating concern over the incessant rocket attacks upon Sderot and other parts of Israel adjacent to Gaza as “hysteria” and for demeaning the danger of Qassem missile attacks as “Qassems schmassems.” Peres was quoted […]